After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Pigs have been chosen as an ideal species for xenotransplantation due to their physiological similarities to humans and their ...

An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

We all know the nursery rhyme about “this little piggy”: one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed home and so ...

David Bennett Sr. had received a gene-altered pig heart in January as a last-chance option after he was "deemed ineligible" for a traditional heart transplant Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

The 57-year-old patient with a terminal heart condition, who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died Tuesday, the University of Maryland Medical Center in the ...

In 2022, the University of Maryland announced it had transplanted a genetically modified pig heart to a patient with end stage heart failure. The patient died after about two months, but the ...